{"id":392462,"date":"2019-01-11T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-need-a-congress-that-represents-americans\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:57:57","slug":"americans-need-a-congress-that-represents-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-need-a-congress-that-represents-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Need a Congress that Represents Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-88151\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Paul Craig Roberts \/ January 11th, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>US Senator Marco Rubio poses as a representative of Florida Republicans, but in truth he represents the interests of Israel. He is sponsor of legislation that punishes Americans who boycott Israel as their way of protesting Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinian people. That Rubio is doing his best to dismantle what little is left of the First Amendment doesn\u2019t seem to bother Florida voters or the presstitute media, who are no longer protective of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (January 9, 2019) the legislation failed to pass the Senate, because Democrats blocked it. But not really. The Democrats are not opposed to the bill. Indeed, the senators of both parties are too well paid in campaign contributions by the Israel Lobby to vote against anything that Israel wants. Moreover, they know that if they do, the money and the media support in their next election will flow to their opponent. The reason the Democrats blocked the passage of the bill is that they are making a point that no legislation will pass until President Trump gives in on the issue of The Wall and signs the necessary money bill to reopen the government.<\/p>\n<p>Every 18 months the US government hands over to Israel enough money to build Trump\u2019s wall. Israel had no hesitation in using Americans\u2019 money to build its wall, which keeps Palestinians out of Palestine. It is OK with the US Congress for Americans to finance Israel\u2019s construction of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/01\/americans-need-a-congress-that-represents-americans\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Craig Roberts \/ January 11th, 2019 US Senator Marco Rubio poses as a representative of Florida Republicans, but in truth he represents the interests of Israel. He is sponsor of legislation that punishes Americans who boycott Israel as their way of protesting Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinian people. That Rubio is doing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}